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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Satori" data-source="post: 2692221" data-attributes="member: 37233">This is one of those issues that causes hexagonal castle sieges, craft-based propoganda pictures, and perform check-related protests.  No one can agree, and everyone thinks that they have the right answer.Wanna know how my group and I have dealt with this tricky situation?  Well, you're gonna read about it whether you want to or not! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />We don't try to solve it.  In fact, we don't LET it be solved.  We keep it as an unknown, then allow human nature to deal with it within the game.Combine this with a HIGH magic world and a city run by mindless undead and what do you get?POLITICS!  WOOT!There is a city ruled by a developing constitutional monarchy that is inhabited by both the living and the undead.  Some type of intelligent undead sits at the top, who is then influenced by the Undead Council and the Living Council.  Mindless undead do all of the grunt labor within the city, and a centuries long philosophy involving a form of ancestor worship and continual service ensures that the labor force is continually renewed.Within this city are the Fundamentalists and the Progressives, two opposing political parties (both living and intelligent undead) that constantly wage political wars about the main topic...THE UNDEAD ISSUE:  -Is the soul completely gone when a zombie is raised?  If not, then is it ethical to utilize zombies/skeletons as labor?-Are undead inherently evil?  If so, then do they deserve the same living rights as humans?  These topics are continually debated to no end...but it creates some very interesting RP scenarios.</blockquote>

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